oil- and gas-producing industry. SUBSTANCE: device for method realization consists of body with inlet and outlet pipes of main flow and valve. Body accommodates sampling tube whose wall has radial channel in which membrane is located. Flows inside tube and inside body interact due to membrane deformation to equalize static pressures of flows. Invention is used for taking samples of gas-liquid flow...

wind-power engineering. SUBSTANCE: plant has frame installed on support for turning in horizontal plane under effect of wind pressure on frame-- mounted stabilizer; novelty is that plant frame is made in the form of axles mounting shafts with blades; shafts are mounted for synchronous rotation in plane transversal to longitudinal axis of frame and are kinematically coupled with generator shaft; fr...

A system for controlling a gaming operation comprises a secure processing and memory apparatus in the form of a smart card, together with non-secure input and display means connectable to the smart card. The memory of the smart card stores software controlling the operation of the game and also data relating to gains or losses of the player. Input signals generated by the player are processed with...

A cutting tool insert includes a cutting tip mounted into a first recess of a molded hard refractory compound insert having a second recess of preselected size and shape for locating the insert to a cutting tool. A preferred cutting tip is a diamond and a preferred hard refractory compound is a tungsten carbide with a cobalt binder.

A method is described for optimizing signal-to-noise performance of an imaging system, including the steps of scout-scanning (116) an object to obtain scout scan data; determining (118) a plurality of normalized x-ray input signal factors using the scout scan data; using the normalized x-ray input signal factors to determine (120) at least one system input signal; selecting (122) at least one gain...

A method for imaging a heart of a patient utilizing a CT imaging system includes steps of assigning a scanning priority to phases (88, 90) of a representative cardiac cycle (52) of the patient's heart, selecting phases of the cardiac cycle for scanning in accordance with the assigned scanning priority, and obtaining image slices of the patient's heart corresponding the selected phases of the cardi...

A library monitoring system includes a number of borrowable items. Each item has a radio frequency identification device mounted thereon and the radio frequency identification device has a unique identification code. A processing unit (1) is coupled to a database containing an indication of the location of each library item and is also coupled to a borrowing location (3), a borrowed item returning...

A method of imparting high strength, high ductility, and high fracture toughness to a refractory metal alloy workpiece includes: (i) subjecting the workpiece to at least one pass that reduces the initial cross-sectional area of said workpiece, (ii) annealing the workpiece subsequent to the at least one pass, and (iii) subjecting the workpiece to a final working step comprising at least one pass co...

A method and apparatus for use with a multi-row CT fan beam system for collecting data in a high speed mode and for using data corresponding to halfscans in order to generate images within one or more image planes wherein, for each beam angle corresponding to an image plane data is generated by interpolating and/or extrapolating between simultaneously collected data wherein simultaneously collecte...

The method involves using a segmentation logarithm with projection data to generate basic image data, which comprise a number of segments. Image data are generated for each segment. Sequence image data are generated based on the image data of each segment. Image data, segments, sequence images or basic images are communicated to a remote unit over a network for remote operation.

The method involves identifying a physiological cycle of the patient (28), which has a number of phases and selecting at least one phase. At least one segment of projection data is detected for each selected phase of the object during each rotation of each X-ray source (16). A projection dataset is generated by combining each data segment. A cross-section image is generated of the whole patient. ...

The present invention includes a reliable and efficient method for redistributing, purchasing or selling tickets on the secondary market. The system generally includes a method for accepting tickets from individual sellers, posting the tickets on a central database for redistribution, establishing a market price based on demand and/or a service fee (this feature may not be available in certain sta...

An absorbent composite sheet mainly consisting of a fibrous substrate web, a super absorbent polymer, and a bonding component bonding both of them with each other, wherein (a) the fibrous substrate web is a non-bonded web with a few of the constituent fibers bonded with each other, (b) a liquid mixture system is used of a medium mainly consisting of the super absorbent polymer and the bonding comp...

medicine, pharmacy. SUBSTANCE: aerosol composition consists of the milled medicinal agent taken among the group including salmeterol, salbutamol, fluticasone propionate, beclometasone dipropionate and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates and 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane, 1,1,1,2,3,3,3-heptafluoro-n-propane or their mixture as a propellant. Medicinal agent is taken in the amount from 0...

The present invention relates to a method of making improved polyolefinic elastic articles from cured, irradiated or crosslinked amorphous ethylene interpolymers. In particular, the invention relates to a method of making a shaped article (e.g. film or fiber) characterized by improved elevated temperature elasticity as well as washability and dryability. The inventive elastic article comprises a s...

A novel process and apparatus are disclosed for cleaning wastewater containing metal ions in solution, hydrogen peroxide, and high solids, e.g., greater than about 50 mg/l particulate solids. A carbon adsorption column removes hydrogen peroxide in the wastewater feed containing high solids. A ion exchange unit removes the metal ions from solution. The process and apparatus remove metal ions such a...

A facile discriminatory mercantile method of use with an electronic commerce portal is disclosed. This method includes the steps of: (a) establishing linkage to an electronic commerce portal for non-contractually matching of parties that have a transaction defined common interest wherein, for each transaction defined common interest, the portal associates first party offers with second party accep...

The apparatus, in one embodiment, has guide housing (113) with a shaft (101) extending through the guide housing (113) with a drill bit (105) coupled to its forward end (101F). The shaft (101) may be moved to a forward drilling position or to a rearward shifting position relative to the guide housing (113). A cam is located inside of the guide housing. A cam follower (131) is coupled to the shaft....

Heterophasic compositions comprising starch and a thermoplastic polymer that is incompatible with the starch, in which the starch constitutes the discontinuous phase and the thermoplastic polymer the continuous matrix, having an impact strength greater than 30 KJ/m2 (measured on blown film of 30 microns thick at 10 DEG C and RH less than 5%), and further characterised by the presence in the X-ray ...

A distributed verified trusted third-party system (VPS) (10) and method enable electronic/digital transactions through real-time verification and authentication, with improved privacy and security, encompassing the whole payment range from very large to very small. The VPS (10) includes hubs (16-20) storing client data and connecting clients (22) to vendors (24) to mediate secure electronic transa...